Bodies of missing Staten Island brothers found after being swept away by Sandy

New York police said they found the bodies of two missing boys who were swept away from their mother’s arms by floodwaters on Monday night during the most violent part of the storm.

The children were found 20 yards from each other, The New York Post reported.

'Nobody wanted to help her'

- The grandfather of the two boy's told The New York Post

Staten Island rescue crews had been searching area marshlands for the boys, Connor, 4, and Brandon, 2, They were separated from their nurse mother when she tried to leave her home for Brooklyn, the Post reported.

The mother's Ford Explorer reportedly stalled on a flooded road a few miles from her home.

She got out of the car with the boys to ask for help. By then, the waves were picking up speed and Moore lost her grip on toddler Brandon. The desperate mother clutched tighter to her older boy — but Connor, too, was swept away by the water.